Website GregWells.net Name Greg Wells | Role Musician ยท gregwells.net Education Humber College | |
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Occupation(s) Record producer, songwriter, musician, mix engineer Instruments Piano, Synthesizer, drums, guitar, bass, Hammond B3 Albums Changes, All Of You, Hidin' Under the Covers, i-lek-'tran-ik Similar People Katy Perry, Dr Luke, Max Martin, Kara DioGuardi, Tricky Stewart |
Producer / Musician / Mixer / Songwriter, Greg Wells - Pensado's Place #392
Greg Wells is a Canadian multiple Grammy nominated musician, record producer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Wells has songs on over 85 million units sold. He has produced and written with Adele, Dua Lipa, Keith Urban, Twenty One Pilots, Mika (singer), Rufus Wainwright, Katy Perry, Mayer Hawthorne,Theophilus London, Weezer, Kid Cudi, OneRepublic, Grace VanderWaal, Ariana Grande, Kelly Clarkson, Pink, Pharrell Williams, Rascal Flatts, Holychild, Ella Eyre, The All American Rejects, Otep, Deftones, Aerosmith, Burt Bacharach, Celine Dion, Crash Test Dummies, Elton John, Jars of Clay, and the Count Basie Orchestra.
Contents
- Producer Musician Mixer Songwriter Greg Wells Pensados Place 392
- Producer greg wells adele katy perry mika shares his favorite plugins
- Early life
- Career
- Awards
- Personal life
- Selected recording performance and production credits
- References

As a musician there are feature articles about Wells as a drummer in Modern Drummer, as a pianist in Keyboard Magazine, as a synth programmer in Electronic Musician, as a songwriter in American Songwriter and Billboard Magazine, and as a producer, mix engineer, and music maker is featured on the cover of Mix Magazine with Ryan Tedder in the May 2017 edition.

Wells has designed a signature series of software plugins with Waves Audio and is a member of the Mix with the Masters program based in France.

Producer greg wells adele katy perry mika shares his favorite plugins
Early life
Wells grew up in the small city of Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, the son of a United Church of Canada minister. At age 11, he developed Perthes' disease and was unable to walk for two years. Wells attended Adam Scott CVI, learned to play several instruments, and joined many musical ensembles in his hometown from the local orchestra to club bands to being a church organist/choir director, as well as DJ-ing dances and running a weekly radio show on Trent University Radio CFFF-FM. He studied classical piano, drums, pipe organ, orchestral percussion and music theory at Toronto's Royal Conservatory of Music and attended the Humber College Jazz Music Program in Toronto on drums, piano, and guitar.
Career
After moving to Toronto at age 17, Wells worked as a live and studio musician with some jazz, classical, and pop musicians, including Rob McConnell and Kim Mitchell. He joined the Kim Mitchell Band at age 19. He recorded keyboards and backing vocals on Mitchell's, Rockland, toured Canada several times with the band, and won the award for best keyboardist at the Toronto Music Awards as a result of his work with Mitchell.
Wells was awarded a Canada Council arts grant to study with composer and arranger Clare Fischer in Los Angeles. He moved to Los Angeles at age 21 with the intention of returning to Canada, but Fischer began recommending Wells for studio work as a pianist. Wells joined k.d. lang's band soon afterward, performing with her on the 1993 Grammy Awards where she won Best Pop Female Vocal.
Working with the support of music manager Miles Copeland and music publisher Barbara Vander Linde at Rondor Music, Wells started producing records and writing songs. His first recorded song as a songwriter was with Aerosmith on Nine Lives, which was followed by "The Reason" on Celine Dion's album, Let's Talk About Love. Wells continued to branch out, producing Rufus Wainwright and Otep. Songwriter Kara DioGuardi started collaborating with Wells in 2003 and partnered with him in several pop projects. Wells then produced, mixed and played most of the instruments on Mika's debut album.
In 2007, Wells produced both Timbaland's and OneRepublic's version of the song, "Apologize". Wells began working with Katy Perry and has written and produced on all of her albums. The two continue to collaborate in 2015 as Perry performed "By the Grace of God", penned by Perry and Wells, at the 2015 Grammy Awards.
Awards
Wells has received two Grammy nominations for his work with Katy Perry and Mika. Wells was nominated as producer of the year at the 2000 Canadian Juno Awards. In June 2015, Wells was awarded an honorary degree from his alma mater music college, Humber College in Toronto.
Personal life
Wells married singer/songwriter Louise Goffin.
Wells later married Swedish songwriter Nina Woodford. He has five children. He works out of his studio in Los Angeles that he built called Rocket Carousel Studio.